Scours in calves, treatment of, 291 Selection of cows, 10, 61, 71, 79, 80, 86, 110, 111 Shaving the milk-mirror, 95 Short-horns, origin and characteristics of, 31, 33, 35 Short-horns, influence on American cattle, 34, 35, 74 Short-horns, beef of the, 36, 42, 43 Simple fever, symptoms and treatment, 279, 280 Size of animals, relative, 10, 70, 111 Skim-milk cheese, 243, 266, 331, 360 Slinking the calf, 274 Soiling, plants for, 132, 135, 142, 143, 144 Soiling, advantages of, 141, 142, 143 Sponge and cloth, use of the, 231, 232, 234, 358 Spring, treatment of cows in, 131, 133, 137 Square box the best churn, 228 Stamping of butter, 323, 359 Stilton cheese, mode of making, 259, 260 Stock, improvement of, 57, 58, 60, 63, 71, 168 Stock, selection of, 10, 58, 60, 64, 66, 71, 86 Stock, age of, 80, 81 Suffolk swine, crosses with, 362, 363 Surfeited cows, treatment of, 138, 290 Swill-milk, how produced, 144, 208, 209, 210 Swine, the kind of wanted, 362, 363 Swine, treatment of, 364 Symptomatic fever, treatment of, 280 Teeth, indicative of age, 81, 83, 85, 86 The piggery, 361, 364 Time a cow should run dry, 130, 131, 273 Time of calving, 131, 272, 273 Treatment of dairy stock, 56, 130, 131, 133, 134, 136, 138, 140, 148, 168 Typhoid fever, treatment of, 281 Udder, attention to the, 43, 88, 89, 104, 108, 272 Udder, structure of the, 145, 146, 202 Vegetable oils, 379, 389, 409 Virginia, importation of cattle to, 35, 50